. The Holman new self-pronouncing Sunday-school teachers Bible . EGYPTIAN EMBALMERS BANDAGING A Plate EMBALMERS PAINTING A MUMMY. ^ The Egyptians believed that after the judgment of the dead in the Hall of Double Truth before Osiris, thejudge of the dead, and after the soul had undergone all its transformations, it would return and againenter and live in the body in the tomb. The bodies of the dead were preserved by filling them with gums,spices, and other aromatic and astringent substances, and by soaking them from forty to seventy days in abath of natron or bitumen. For m
. The Holman new self-pronouncing Sunday-school teachers Bible . EGYPTIAN EMBALMERS BANDAGING A Plate EMBALMERS PAINTING A MUMMY. ^ The Egyptians believed that after the judgment of the dead in the Hall of Double Truth before Osiris, thejudge of the dead, and after the soul had undergone all its transformations, it would return and againenter and live in the body in the tomb. The bodies of the dead were preserved by filling them with gums,spices, and other aromatic and astringent substances, and by soaking them from forty to seventy days in abath of natron or bitumen. For mummies of the poorer classes salt only was used. The principal intes-tines were also mummified, and were afterwards preserved in sealed jars. If by any chance the heart weredestroyed, it was not possible for the dead to enjoy life in the world to come. The mummy was carefullybandaged with linen strips, between which amulets were laid in order to protect it from worms and decay,and to ensure the protection of Isis, Nephthys, Mut, Hathor, and other deities. It was finally covered witha thin layer of
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